HRC Relevant Work on Migrants Rights Issues
Study of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on challenges and best practices in the implementation of the international framework for the protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration, 5 July 2010 - French version - Spanish version -
2009 Resolution: Human Rights of Migrants - Migration and the Human Rights of the Child
Council holds general debate on promotion of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including right to development, 13 March 2008
Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue on reports on right to adequate housing and on minority issues, 12 March 2008
Human Rights Council discusses reports on freedom of religion and belief, and human rights and international solidarity, 13 September 2007
Council concludes discussion on right to food, toxic and dangerous wastes, adequate housing and extreme poverty, 12 June 2007
Council hears from experts on right to food, toxic and dangerous wastes, adequate housing and extreme poverty, 11 June 2007
Human Rights Council concludes debate on extrajudicial executions, people on African descent and racial discrimination, 28 March 2007
Council concludes discussions on enforced or involuntary disappearances, takes up thematic issues, 22 March 2007
Human Rights Council considers reports on Internally displaced persons, violence against women, and sale of children, Concludes Debate on Human Rights of Minorities, Migrants and Indigenous People, 20 March 2007
Human Rights Council discusses rights of minorities, migrants and indigenous peoples, 20 March 2007
Human Rights Council discusses racism and racial discrimination, human rights of people of African descent and migrants, 18 September 2006
Latest from the Radio1812 site
- Interview with UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants
- Thailand: Campaigning for minimum wages
- Impact of the economic crisis on international migration
- In Durban migration is just a side event
- Interview with Sharan Burrow (ITUC)
- Report from the Civil Society Days in Geneva
- IOM World Migration Report 2011
- Life and Status of Burmese Refugees in India
- Teaching undocumented students in the USA
- Detention centers in Switzerland
- Swiss blues musician talks about his migration to US South
- Interview with European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström
UN Migrant Workers Convention
Status as of 04.11.2010
Ratifications 45
Signatories 14
For the full list, click here
Twelve Reasons to Ratify the Migrant Workers Convention



